DANIELLE Carey (List 3A) was the sole judge at last Sunday’s Midland & Western Region show held at Iceford Stables where Julie Spring recorded a double on the unraced thoroughbred gelding Free Out.

The combination won the opening three-runner Intro A on 69.72% and then landed the nine-strong Preliminary DI5A on 65.54. The British-bred Free Out is a chesnut four-year-old by Free Eagle out of Peppard (by Dansili), the dam of a track winner in Italy and a half-sister to the Grade 1-winning Redwood (by High Chaparral).

There were nine starters also in the Trailblazers Preliminary Under 16 class where Tallula Hughes recorded the highest score (72.20%) on board the 17-year-old skewbald gelding Lightning McQueen. The day’s best supported class was the 12-runner Preliminary DI6 where the overall leaderboard was topped by Rachel Ryder on the unregistered Aldo Pye (68.27).

The two Novice classes attracted just two runners apiece. The DI21 was won by Adrien Kneale on David Gray’s home-bred Irish Sport Horse gelding Kingsborough Santiago (62.93), a five-year-old by Sandro K out of the Heartbreaker mare O’Hara vh Schepershof. Amy McDonagh saw off her sole opponent to win the DI27A on her 17-year-old bay mare Forest View Anne (67.07).

Show organiser Simone Hession won both Elementary classes riding her home-bred Traditional Irish Horse mare Beezies Dusk Cruise, a six-year-old bay by CC Captain Cruise out of Beezies Rose (by Moot Point). The combination recorded an uncontested success on 68.52% in the DI51 and then, on 66.07, they got the better of McDonagh and Forest View Anne (63.21) in the DI55.